About the day » Thursday October 29, 1903Calender converter

• Aagje den Heijer
• Sterenberg, Godlinze, Groningen, Nederland († 1903)
• Adrianus Demmers, Rotterdam († 1903)
• Abraham Verschueren, Princenhage († 1971)
• Albertus Hendrikus Broekhuis, Apeldoorn (Wormen),, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Egidius Jacobs, Ginneken en Bavel
• Eekelen, van († 1991)
• Adriana Catharina Luijten, Borgerhout (België) († 1975)
• Aagje den Heijer, Scheveningen
• Aaltje van der Heide, Smilde († 1943)

• Arie Schinkel (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Booij Fakes Booij (95), Deventer
• Anje Kornelis Hoving (60), Uithuizermeeden
• Sterenberg (0), Godlinze, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Spaanstra (1), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van Breugel (74), De Werken, Nederland
• DEKKER (0), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaan de Wit (3), Rotterdam
• Arend Jan Kleinhesselink (70), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Booij Booij (95), Deventer

• 1897 » Billy Walker, English footballer († 1964)
• 1897 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany († 1945)
• 1898 » Alan Barker, English soldier († 1984)
• 1899 » Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor († 1972)
• 1905 » Henry Green, English author († 1973)
• 1906 » Fredric Brown, American author († 1972)
• 1907 » Edwige Feuillère, French actress († 1998)
• 1910 » A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1913 » Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee († 2014)
• 1914 » Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch († 2012)

• 1885 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1826)
• 1892 » William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848)
• 1897 » Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 » Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
• 1911 » Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 » John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 » Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)
• 1924 » Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (b. 1849)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
• April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
• November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

The temperature on October 29, 1903 was between 5.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C.